Dr.-Ing. Axel Timpe (m) (LA) is a landscape architect trained at Leibniz Universität Hannover/DE (1997-2003) and Centre d’études Supérieures d’aménagement of Université Francois Rabelais de Tours/FR (1999/2000). He started his professional career at lohrberg stadtlandschaftsarchitektur in 2003 and has been a research and teaching associate at RWTH Aachen University’s Institute of Landscape Architecture since 2010.
He accomplished his doctoral degree here in January 2017. Axel Timpe is coordinating H2020 IA proGIreg, the transdisciplinary national Green Infrastructure research project CoProGrün and had a coordinating role in COST Action Urban Agriculture Europe. His research focus is on the Green Infrastructure functions of Urban Agriculture and Urban Forestry and the potential and procedures to co-design and co-produce these with local stakeholders. Publications include the reference book "Urban Agriculture Europe" and the upcoming volume "Urban Agricultural Heritage".
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